> What could materialize is different spheres of influence, where one set of standards is used for all associated devices in one group of nations, and another set for a separate group.
From an investment standpoint, that means companies would have to incur extra costs to manufacture to, say, China-oriented standards and Western-oriented ones.
China has become dominant not via military might, but economic might. Establishing standards is another notch in that bed post.
China will, as the West has in the past, ask / expect its allies to favor its standards. Which ultimately guarantees market(s) for the products that use those standards.
China's power increases again and its DoD budget a fraction of the aggregate of The West. New rules for a new century (that The West can't seem to grasp).
From an investment standpoint, that means companies would have to incur extra costs to manufacture to, say, China-oriented standards and Western-oriented ones.
China has become dominant not via military might, but economic might. Establishing standards is another notch in that bed post.
China will, as the West has in the past, ask / expect its allies to favor its standards. Which ultimately guarantees market(s) for the products that use those standards.
China's power increases again and its DoD budget a fraction of the aggregate of The West. New rules for a new century (that The West can't seem to grasp).